Three Names, One Haunting: The Boo Hag, the Rusalka, the Okwa Naholo — and the girl they used to be.

Some spirits wear different faces depending on where you’re standing.

Sometimes she’s pale as trout-belly, sometimes red and raw with no skin at all. Sometimes she’s brushing her hair by the well, singing a song you wish you hadn’t heard.

Here are three stories from three traditions — Choctaw, Gullah Geechee, and Slavic — that speak of her. Or something like her.

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